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Chapter 13

The Guidance of Masters and the Need for It

A: The Individual Guidance of Children (Parents) in Family

Preface: Since the discussion is at the point which deals with the necessity and importance of guidance's of Teachers, it will be appropriate to draw your attention to a portion of basic and main values of education by parents and other authorities of affairs (people in charge) of human beings, and the positive and negative impacts of guides.

It is an obvious fact that in the first step, the most complete school is the bosom of parents. Their education's for the children are effective as in the position of print on stone. Therefore, parents should pay heed to the manner of education and to its ultimate goal.

In other words, the fathers and mothers are the ones who can bring up their children as believers or unbelievers, wicked or prosperous, good-tempered or ill-natured etc.

By perceiving these truths, parents should not let the most precious life opportunity of their children to be spent in ignorance and laziness.

They should also realize that if they do not leave the chaste and perfect print based on oneness of Allah and sincerity in memories, souls and psyches of their beloved children, and do not inform them well about the social life, and the value of (group activities, team works) then somehow the Jinni and human Devils, especially nowadays, will fill their memories, souls and psyches with manners such as, unchaste, cruelty and hundreds of other immoralities and impieties starting from the street up to the ditch (Dand) of society.

As a proverb says:

"What is obvious, there is no need for it to be expressed."

In such circumstances, the parents are responsible in front of Allah, for the child, his or her later corrupt report cards in the society, and even for the generation coming after him or her, if they become addicted to that malicious Rooh and Psyche. However, on the contrary, if parents raise their child as a sound believer and charitable individual along with other particular Islamic qualities for the society, then up to whatever extent other people follow him and thereby these people become doer of good deeds, the parents are equivalently rewarded.

Hereby, take an attentive look to the following points which are prepared as answered questions, so that you may become familiar once again with this fact.

1. Have you noticed? The only creature who makes efforts in educating children while thinking of some personal gain in future, is Man. Otherwise, all living creatures help their children to grow just up to the limit of maturity. Once, their children become able of undertaking their livelihood, then their parents abandon them or even mostly expel them from the nest or den.

2. Have you noticed? The existence of children in family is in the position of horsemen serving aristocrats in the period of feudallity . As, in the past it was a custom among kings to assign to each aristocrat family up to ten, to hundred, or even thousand ration-receiver horsemen, and they had to be presented back to the royal court, in case of necessity.

3. Have you noticed? Similarly, for the continuance and for keeping up of world's flow, Great Allah up to the time He wants, has given a few children to each family. He has made father and mother busy educating their children for the hope of bright future for their children. But, in reality if look carefully, these creatures are merely for the regulation of their own world and the necessary future director ship of the world. As, for instance, each of us in his turn has the chance of his role in the world with his other contemporaries.

4. Have you noticed? After perceiving this truth, it becomes an obligation (wajeb) on parents to prepare their children before everything with Insight into Almighty Allah, and service to Allah's creatures based on theism morale.

They should educate their children with good activities and praiseworthy attitude. They should also train them skillfully with knowledge and sciences. However, it is an error for the parents to have extreme expectations from their children for worldly comforts. They should ponder, they did not have children, but Almighty Allah kept them alive and comfortable to the required extent. Almighty Allah will now as well grant them with better favors and graces, if they educate sound children. The purpose of educating child should be merely for Almighty Allah, improvement of society, and the reward in the Eternal World, and this is it.

5. Have you noticed? The truth of what the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, has said: "After death, three beneficial things can contribute in elevating a person's station:"

1. Sound Descendants
2. Beneficial Knowledge
3. Continuous (remaining) Charity

What is Continuous (remaining) charity?

Yes! After the person dies, his spiritual rewards and recompenses are cut off. If he left after himself either all these three above mentioned deeds, or two of them, or one, then his stations in the Heavens keep elevating.

6. Have you noticed? How will these excellent stations be given to people of acting upon one or more of the mentioned factors?

Yes! The deceased person might have mad his descendants to perfectly practice upon the knowledge and secrets of religion, and the service to Allah's creatures. The more, the descendants do charitable deeds at either individual or social levels, the higher and higher will go the parents rewards.

7. Have you noticed? The purpose out of the Beneficial Knowledge is to learn the path of Insight into Almighty Allah and the commands of the religious Jurisprudence that people would learn from this person, and coming generation would learn from these people who were this person's first students.

So long as this true knowledge stay on, rewards will be given to the first Teacher who initiated them. Consequently, their stations in Heavens keep elevating. Similarly, proportionally multiple stations will be granted to the reliable followers at different levels.

8. Have you noticed? Continuous (remaining) charity consists of things such as building a mosque, water reservoirs, electricity dams, streets or preparing Epistles and books promoting religious matters and laws, especially if they are based on complete Insight into Almighty Allah such as Qur'an, Hadeeths and the Epistles of Madrassa-e-Towheed etc. So long as, that book, water reservoir, street, or bridge remain in service and people benefit therefrom, successive rewards will be given to the founder increasing his station. Now it is necessary for parents to be practicing at least upon the Insight they have into Allah and to spread this to others, and make their children to practice upon and their children to make others to practice upon.

9. Have you noticed? In case a person gives to the child the Islamic and humanity lessons besides giving him clothes, food and livelihood, then the person will earn reward and recompense.

According to this criterion, the parents who besides guarding and taking care of their children, if they also put effort in children's sound education based on Oneness of God and sincerity, then they receive double reward or even many recompense.

For, the impact of learning and teaching in this period (childhood) will not be forgotten from the memory. If, it is good, then it rarely disappears, and if it is bad, then the child quickly gets on practicing it.